International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
300377683
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Reported finances

Revenue
$19,894
Expenses
$29,380
Assets
$326,005
Liabilities
$72

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

  • David Bloom (Executive Committee Chair)
  • Chandra Earl (Treasurer)
  • Visotheary Ung (Executive Committee Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our organization develops ratifies and promotes data standards and guidelines for the recording and exchange biodiversity information. We also provide a forum for discussing all aspects of biodiversity information management through conferences online discussions and publications.

What it reported doing in 2025

We convened our annual conference jointly with GEOBON. org GBIF. org and OBIS. org as LivingData2025. com in Bogota Colombia. Highlights included: - 931 registered participants 711 in person 221 virtual; - 554 simple abstracts published in the conference program. The abstracts posters and links to videos are now openly accessible via the conference program. Also see the LivingData2025 YouTube channel -- https : www.youtube. com @LivingData2025. The Humboldt Institute in Bogota was the conference host and served as the financial manager. The conference broke even and no proceeds were distributed to partner organizations. We paid the airfare and lodging for the Chair of our Board to attend the conference.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 61% for direct work, and 39% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 89.6%; rating input score 90

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -47.7%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.1; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 34%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -28.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -17.4% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $26K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.